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Open-source projects built with C++

There are currently 3036 open-source projects built with C++, with a combined total of 9105.3k GitHub stars. The most common language among these projects is C++.

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simdjson
simdjsonlemire/simdjson

A high-performance C++ JSON parser that uses SIMD instructions to parse gigabytes of JSON per second.

24.0k1.3kC++
10 days ago
simdjson
simdjsonsimdjson/simdjson

A high-performance C++ JSON parser that uses SIMD instructions to parse gigabytes of JSON per second.

24.0k1.3kC++
10 days ago
fastfetch
fastfetchfastfetch-cli/fastfetch

A fast, customizable, and cross-platform system information tool similar to neofetch, written in C.

23.9k843C
21 hours ago
{fmt}
{fmt}fmtlib/fmt

A fast, safe, and modern C++ formatting library providing a type-safe alternative to printf and iostreams.

23.7k2.9kC++
1 day ago
ncnn
ncnnTencent/ncnn

A high-performance neural network inference framework optimized for mobile platforms, enabling efficient AI deployment on edge devices.

23.6k4.5kC++
2 days ago
Slint
Slintslint-ui/slint

A declarative GUI toolkit for building native user interfaces across embedded, desktop, and mobile platforms using Rust, C++, JavaScript, or Python.

23.3k938Rust
1 day ago
Redis Desktop Manager
Redis Desktop Manageruglide/RedisDesktopManager

Cross-platform GUI desktop application for managing Redis databases with an intuitive visual interface.

23.2k3.2kC++
2 years ago
bcc
bcciovisor/bcc

A toolkit for creating efficient kernel tracing and manipulation programs using extended BPF (eBPF) on Linux.

22.6k4.1kC
4 days ago
mpremote
mpremotemicropython/micropython

A lean and efficient implementation of Python 3 for microcontrollers, embedded systems, and constrained platforms.

21.9k8.9kC
2 days ago
mimikatz
mimikatzgentilkiwi/mimikatz

A Windows security tool for extracting credentials, hashes, and Kerberos tickets from memory and performing various post-exploitation techniques.

21.7k4.1kC
3 months ago
nnn
nnnjarun/nnn

A full-featured, incredibly fast terminal file manager that is tiny, nearly 0-config, and designed for unobtrusive, smart workflows.

21.7k811C
7 days ago
postgres
postgrespostgres/postgres

An advanced, open-source object-relational database management system supporting SQL standards, transactions, and extensibility.

21.6k5.8kC
1 day ago
Catch2
Catch2catchorg/Catch2

A modern, C++-native test framework for unit tests, TDD, and BDD with micro-benchmarking support.

21.3k3.4kC++
1 day ago
Kodi
Kodixbmc/xbmc

Award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software for playing and organizing digital media across multiple platforms.

21.0k6.6kC++
21 hours ago
goaccess
goaccessallinurl/goaccess

A real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in terminal or browser for instant server monitoring.

20.7k1.2kC
4 days ago
Lean
LeanQuantConnect/Lean

An open-source, event-driven algorithmic trading engine for backtesting and live trading across multiple financial markets.

20.7k5.1kC#
1 day ago
Online Boutique
Online BoutiqueGoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo

A sample cloud-native e-commerce application built with 11 microservices to demonstrate Kubernetes, Istio, and gRPC best practices.

20.6k10.2kGo
19 hours ago
Filament
Filamentgoogle/filament

A real-time physically based rendering engine for Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, and WebGL2.

20.3k2.2kC++
1 day ago
TranslucentTB
TranslucentTBTranslucentTB/TranslucentTB

A lightweight utility that makes the Windows taskbar translucent, transparent, or blurred on Windows 10 and 11.

19.9k1.2kC++
29 days ago
bitwarden-core
bitwarden-corebitwarden/core

The open-source backend infrastructure for Bitwarden, providing APIs, database, and core services for password management.

19.5k1.7kC#
23 hours ago
Cutter
Cutterrizinorg/cutter

A free and open-source GUI reverse engineering platform powered by rizin, designed for analyzing binaries and executables.

19.4k1.4kC++
3 days ago
RPCS3
RPCS3RPCS3/rpcs3

A free and open-source PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger written in C++ for Windows, Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD.

19.2k2.3kC++
1 day ago
Background Music
Background Musickyleneideck/BackgroundMusic

A macOS audio utility that automatically pauses music, controls per-app volumes, and records system audio.

19.2k774C++
1 month ago
Cocos2d-x
Cocos2d-xcocos2d/cocos2d-x

A C++-based, cross-platform framework for building 2D games, interactive books, and graphical applications.

19.1k7.1kC++
1 year ago
VLC
VLCvideolan/vlc

A libre, cross-platform media player and multimedia engine that plays virtually any audio or video format.

19.1k6.1kC
1 day ago
uWebSockets
uWebSocketsuNetworking/uWebSockets

A high-performance, secure, and standards-compliant web server for demanding real-time applications like crypto exchanges.

18.9k1.9kC++
17 days ago
Swoole
Swooleswoole/swoole-src

A high-performance, event-driven, coroutine-based concurrency library for PHP that enables asynchronous programming.

18.9k3.1kC++
3 days ago
YogaKit
YogaKitfacebook/yoga

An embeddable, performant flexbox layout engine with multi-language bindings.

18.8k1.5kC++
1 day ago
Yoga
Yogafacebook/yoga

An embeddable and performant flexbox layout engine with multi-language bindings.

18.8k1.5kC++
1 day ago
osu!
osu!ppy/osu

A free-to-win rhythm game client with an open-source engine and support for custom gameplay rulesets.

18.7k2.8kC#
1 day ago
LightGBM
LightGBMmicrosoft/LightGBM

A fast, distributed gradient boosting framework based on decision tree algorithms for ranking, classification, and other machine learning tasks.

18.6k4.0kC++
1 day ago
lightgbm
lightgbmlightgbm-org/LightGBM

A fast, distributed gradient boosting framework based on decision tree algorithms for ranking, classification, and other ML tasks.

18.6k4.0kC++
1 day ago
GitHub repository
GitHub repositorymicrosoft/AirSim

Open-source simulator for drones and autonomous vehicles built on Unreal Engine and Unity, designed for AI research.

18.3k4.9kC++
24 days ago
libphonenumber
libphonenumbergooglei18n/libphonenumber

Google's library for parsing, formatting, and validating international phone numbers across Java, C++, and JavaScript.

18.1k2.2kC++
1 day ago
Falsehoods about Phone Numbers
Falsehoods about Phone Numbersgooglei18n/libphonenumber

Google's library for parsing, formatting, and validating international phone numbers across Java, C++, and JavaScript.

18.1k2.2kC++
1 day ago
LeetCode Problems' Solutions written in C++
LeetCode Problems' Solutions written in C++haoel/leetcode

A comprehensive collection of LeetCode problem solutions in C++, Java, and Python.

18.1k4.9kC++
2 years ago
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